Photos: Beauty queen race in Mexican narco land

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FILE - In this April 26, 2012 file photo, Maria Susana Flores Gamez poses for a photo in Culiacan, Mexico. Beauty queens and drug lords have been drawn to each other for as long as the illegal narcotics trade has flourished in Sinaloa. In November 2012, Susy died like a mobster's moll, carrying an AK-47 assault rifle into a spray of gunfire from Mexican soldiers. Hit below the neck, she dropped into a dirt field and bled to death. (AP Photo/El Debate, Gladys Serrano, File)